Hi! I don't have an issue with my old "XP pro 2002 SP2" vm's. I'm pretty shure they're 32bit, as nothing mentioned in winver.exe about 64 bit, and no directory *wow* in %WINDIR%, etc..
Regards, Stephan On 03/24/19 05:24 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: > In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox broken after updating...: > >> I created a new BE during a pkg update this morning but found that >> VirtualBox from the openindiana repository was now broken. VirtualBox >> GUI starts but VMs crash on starting. > > Are your VMs 32 bit? > > I applied OI updates last week, and the update of Virtualbox package from > 5.2.24 to 6.0.4 required me to tweak a couple things, but overall VB > 6.0.4 > is working for me. > > However, there's note on the Virtualbox site that 6.0 no longer supports > 32 bit VMs. If you need 32 bit VMs, you're supposed to stay with the > 5.2 series. Not sure how you would do that on OI, but anyway. > > For me, when I tried to start either of my (64 bit) VMs, I got an error > that the VM was using USB 2.0 and that was not supported. I had to > change > the settings in the VM before booting to switch it to USB 1.1, and then > it could boot. > > Later on, I realized it was because I had loaded the Virtualbox extension > pack (not the guest additions, though I loaded those too), which had > added > USB 2.0 support to Virtualbox, which my VMs had been making use of. I > removed the 5.x extension pack and loaded the 6.0 extension pack, and USB > 2.0 is working again. > > The OI package of VB still doesn't have working audio, which I hope to > see if I can debug at some point, but the 6.0.4 version seems to have > more > reliable bi-directional clipboard support. That's been working much > better than it did under 5.x. > > Tim _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
